“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”
Source: The Judges
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"The California Question" (10 June 1850), as quoted in The Selected Works of Thaddeus Stevens http://books.google.com/books?id=A0Fs655TKfsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.
1850s
Context: There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the true religion, even although you sell your goods and bestow your money on the poor, and go on and follow your Master. There may, and every hour shows around me, fanatics in the cause of false liberty – that infamous liberty which justifies human bondage, that liberty whose ‘corner-stone is slavery.’ But there can be no fanaticism however high the enthusiasm, in the cause of rational, universal liberty – the liberty of the Declaration of Independence.
The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India (1994)
“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Is it conceivable to adhere to a religion founded by someone else?”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him.”
Time Patrol (p. 42)
Time Patrol
"Author, activist condemns Muslim faith at Palm Beach talk", Palm Beach Daily News (21 March 2009) http://web.archive.org/web/20090324042409/www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/03/21/0321muslimsali.html
“Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.”
My Mortal Enemy (1926)